Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
What
EMDR is and how it works.
On
June 21, 1994, Alice thought that her life was over. It was on this day,
that she was raped while going to work. Alice felt that after this Tuesday,
she would not be able to ever go to work, or be intimate with her husband
again. About a year later Alice came to see me with her husband, convinced
that she was doomed to always be in psychic pain. Because of a spot she
saw on ABC's 20/20, she felt that as a last hope, she would give the treatment
a try. After seeing me for a total of 10 sessions (6 of which were sessions
in which EMDR was used), she was able to look for and get a new job, and
for the first time since the incident, she was able to have sexual contact
with her husband without intrusive thoughts of the rape.
"EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) provides a way for people to free themselves of destructive memories and it seems to work, even in cases where years of conventional therapy have failed." - Hugh Downs, 20/20, ABC News |
Overcome past hurt and pain to lead a better life.
Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic process
which will clear troubling emotions and negative thinking linked to trauma
and other painful past experiences. Some people have said that EMDR helped
them more in one session than other therapies had in years.
"Barry first suggested EMDR explaining that it could help me break
my blocks fast. Initially, I was skeptical of such sudden change. However,
immediately after my first EMDR session I began to feel tremendous positive
change and a genuine boost in my self esteem. As a result I was able
to trust my feelings and make better decisions by listening to my gut.
EMDR is painless and effective. I recommend it to anyone who is interested
in making real progress quickly. "
Celine Ruben-Salama
|
Don't spend years learning about your childhood to enjoy your life
During an
EMDR session the patient combines the focusing on a memory and moving
one's eyes while following the therapist's fingers or an object that is
used to focus on. As the session begins you will be aware of the feelings and thoughts
connected to the memory while simultaneously making the rapid eye movements.
As the process starts, your perception of the traumatic memory will begin to change. It can become
more complete, with an increase in the emotional content or intensity.
Or the memory may fade. Regardless of how EMDR proceeds, the unpleasant feelings
and negative thinking fade and are replaced by more positive feelings and
thoughts.
When the process is completed you will remember the event. Understand
and know that it happened but will no longer be "haunted" by
it or disturbed by the memory. This
then changes the way you view other parts of your lives. |
